[Raion]

A lot of this is all mishmashed, so we may as well make no segregation.



This is a style of music evoking 80s and 90s nostalgia; utilizing remixes of city pop, rock and other songs of various sources, chopped and screwed, put through 12-bit samplers etc.

I have, since 2018, grown to love this stuff:




Let's share and discuss, and spread the chillness

[commodorejohn]

I do need to dig into this a bit more. As far as electronic music goes, my affections are more for the old-school Jean-Michel Jarre/Klaus Schulze/Tangerine Dream type lush compositional-progressive stuff, and the cream of "music with samplers" to me will always be the Amiga MOD scene, but there's definitely some good stuff coming out of this movement. I am feeling a bit silly about having gotten rid of my Mirage lately, that's for sure...

On a broader scale, it's really interesting to me that, as mainstream pop music descends into an ever-tighter spiral of vanishing up its own ass, battering everything into sonic homogeneity, and removing every possible human element from even the human performances (to say nothing of the extent to which people playing actual instruments, electronic or otherwise, have been purged in favor of focus-grouped corporate backing tracks assembled on a Macbook,) so many voices-of-the-past movements have not only sprung up, but begun to gain serious traction. Probably a lesson in there somewhere, music industry.

[Raion]

Yeah, it's a hearkening, a resurgence.

[Raion]

This guy has the right blend of House, Daft Punk and Future Funk

[Raion]

[GeekLucanis]

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[Raion]

People who watch Laowhy86 may recognize this song!

[GeekLucanis]

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[weblacky]

I've been into Retrowave for about 4 years now, and sometimes dip into dark synth, I love synth music so yeah...like crack to me.

That being said, many of the songs posted before this are examples of japanese-focused 80's funk/lounge/pop.  While some of these are new to me and they are all great, we are calling for retrowave as well here so (I'm also a "The Midnight" Fan, but that's pretty mainstream, so I'll only post my fav here).  I'm plugging "The Midnight" because they have a saxaphone player that is just 80's to MAX, nothing says "sleazy" like a sax!

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